Peter Swanson was imprinted with an appreciation for modern architecture in his kindergarten class at a Marcel Breuer designed elementary school in 1955. Along with several others he worked to preserve the Armstrong Rubber Company building in the late 1990's. He received his BA in English from Yale University and his MD from the Yale School of Medicine. As a long-time member of DOCOMOMO he values its tours of Brazil and Finland. His other special interest is documenting the life and work of the post-war ceramicist LaGardo Tackett.